A Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, flying jointly with the Chinese China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), (March 7, 22.40 Moscow time), without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course. The last message from the board was: "Everything is fine, Good night".

At the moment of last contact - literally a minute before entering the air control zone of Vietnam - the airliner was 220 kilometers from east coast Malaysia. The weather in the area of ​​the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

On board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three US citizens, two each New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one resident each from Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, the real nationality of at least two of those on board was then called into question due to evidence that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians were traveling on the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to the international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were heading to Europe as illegal migrants.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorolla, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing was carrying not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named. transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

The transportation of the unknown cargo was carried out by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, but another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, had to pick up the delivered goods on its behalf.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China participating in search operation, the search doubled, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (more than 50 thousand square kilometers) had been surveyed. However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from a number of governments, by that time there was no sign of the aircraft.

The first in 16 months as part of the investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines was a fragment of a wing (flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 at French island Reunion in the Indian Ocean is thousands of kilometers from the area of ​​the main exploration work being carried out near Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After the found fragment of the plane, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, as well as the French prosecutor's office, believed that it belonged to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015 there were search areas. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

Summer 2016. In July, media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, had taken a simulator flight into the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane allegedly disappeared in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, said that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrolled crash. According to the automatic signals that the airliner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - “first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one.”

On January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China disappeared Malaysian Boeing MH370, which lasted more than two years. According to the joint statement of the three states, despite all efforts made, the use latest technologies, modeling methods and consultations with highly qualified and best-in-class specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Conducting searches for the missing MH370 Malaysia for individuals and organizations.

At the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 debris had been confirmed. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with African countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side pledged to help recover any likely debris that might wash up on its shores.

Team investigating the disappearance of the aircraft, which will be published within a year.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti

The wreckage of the Malaysian Boeing that disappeared in March 2014 was found in areas several thousand kilometers apart, but the fate of the airliner itself is still unknown. According to some assumptions, the ship's captain deliberately turned off the aircraft's communications system. Others put forward versions of the involvement of the US military in the deaths of passengers and crew members.

The missing Malaysian Boeing 777 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has not been found. The fate of 227 passengers and 12 crew members remains unknown. Although this happened on March 8, 2014, the details of the event have not been disclosed, and moreover, they continue to excite the public and “overgrow” with new hypotheses.

What happened to the passengers of the MH370 airliner?

Where the huge airliner and the people on board disappeared remains unknown. One can only make assumptions about their fate based on the versions expressed by various sources. Some admit the possibility that they are all alive, others call them dead, one way or another - all this is shrouded in darkness.

Who was responsible for the search for the missing Malaysian Boeing?

Officially, local authorities are investigating the case of a Malaysian Boeing that went missing in March 2014. However, at various stages, specialists from other countries took part in it. At the same time, two reasons were determined:

• Finding out the detailed circumstances of the accident.
• Involvement of criminal structures.

In accordance with ICAO requirements, an international group was organized consisting of experts from the world's largest companies:

• Inmarsat international company satellite communications.
• Representatives civil aviation China.
• Experts from the NTSB, the US National Transportation Safety Board.
• Employees of the FAA - the US Federal Aviation Administration.
• American corporation Boeing.
• British specialists from Rolls-Royce plc (engine manufacturer).

Boeing wreckage found off the coast of Africa

The wreckage of the missing plane was found on the east coast of Africa, more than 4,000 km from the supposed crash site. A total of 6 elements were found:

• On July 29, 2015, in the western part of the Indian Ocean, on the coast of Reunion Island, a part of a wing was found with markings proving that the part belonged to the missing liner.
• December 2015 and February 2016 were marked by the discovery of two more elements of an Indonesian aircraft on the coast of Mozambique.
• On March 22, 2016, part of an engine fairing washed up on the beach of a South African city.
• On March 30, 2016, a trim element appears on the coast of Rodrigues Island.
• On October 7, 2016, the latest find - part of the hind wing - is discovered on the island of Mauritius.

All items found match those of the missing aircraft and have been handed over to the international team investigating the case.

Version of the head of French airlines Marc Dugen

The assumption is that the plane was deliberately shot down by the American military. This was necessary to prevent the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th.

After 40 min. After takeoff, the ground controller loses contact with the aircraft at a time when it is between the airspace of Malaysia and China. It was officially announced that military radars determined that it was at this moment that the plane was changing direction: leaving the given route, turning west.

Dugen's hypothesis indicates that the Americans even know where to look for debris. According to his version, the plane was shot down near the island of Diego Garcia, on which military base USA. The investigation is deliberately led to a dead end in order to cover up the traces of the murder of passengers and crew members.

FBI version

The news about the reasons for the disappearance of the Boeing, according to the FBI, was first published by the American magazine New York. It was based on a simulator discovered in the crew commander's house, which showed signs of intensive work. On the one hand, this may seem quite obvious: Zachary Ahmad Shah, who has more than 18,000 hours of flight time, trained in his free time.

Despite the fact that the history of the training flights was deleted, experts were able to restore the archive. This made it possible to determine the route along which the missing plane could well have moved before it fell into ocean waters. Having fallen apart from contact with water, the liner was subsequently “drawn away” by the underwater current throughout the Indian Ocean.

Slow decompression version

The assumption that the plane disappeared from radar due to decompression was immediately rejected. The reason was explained quite simply:

• With a rapid (explosive) decompression, even if the plane was torn into several parts, modern equipment would allow the systems to operate for a few more seconds, which would be enough for the pilots to report the incident.
• The slow one is capable of quietly killing people, but not equipment. A similar situation occurred in 2005, when Helios Airways flight HCY522 crashed for this reason. The Boeing 737, left without control, continued to move on autopilot and crashed into a mountain due to the fact that it had run out of fuel.

Thus, due to the resulting decompression of any form, the missing Malaysian flight should not have suddenly disappeared from radar screens.

Flying “in the shadow” of another plane

A long search for the missing flight led to the emergence of another version that the Malaysian airliner could long time move in close proximity to a Singapore Airlines aircraft. This allowed him to escape radar and be undetected from 15 minutes to several hours.

According to these arguments, the pilot could hold out until the steppes of Turkmenistan or Kyrgyzstan and only there leave his “guide” heading to Spain. Experts do not reject this assumption, since even if the target on the radar screen began to “split into two,” military controllers could take this as a “glitch” of the equipment.

Landing at the Diego Garcia military base

The moment of interception and landing at an American military base caused a lot of controversy. Moreover, several factors can be called indirect evidence:

• The technical characteristics of the runway are optimal for an experienced pilot to land the aircraft safely.
• The size of the hangars also makes it possible to hide a Boeing 777 in them.
• The holidays announced at the base for March 8, 9 and 10 contribute to the fact that there will be fewer spectators.

The number of adherents of this version has reached such a number that the US Government was forced to make an official statement, which can be considered absurd. The text of the representative's speech contained a pledge that he was not involved in the disappearance of the flight and that the missing Boeing 777 never landed at the military base on the island of Diego Garcia.

New technologies

It is possible that the truth behind the disappearance of flight MH370 lies in the fact that among its passengers were 20 scientists associated with the production of electronic equipment. In particular, it affected equipment designed for aircraft and making them invisible to radar.

It can be assumed that the latest development and the people who created it were needed by someone. As a result, a grandiose operation was carried out, which the whole world cannot unravel.

“An Asian passenger of the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village called Shahraz (to be specified). In about a week, data about this will be transferred to China (it is not known whether this will become public knowledge worldwide). As it turned out, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian Boeing 777-200-ER airliner was to suppress the American side’s attempt by a group of special specialists to get from Malaysia to China.” An anonymous source in the special services told an MK correspondent about this in a confidential manner. This information is published in the world media for the first time.

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The day before, a source from the intelligence services told MK on condition of anonymity that, according to available data, the hijacked passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.

In the first ten days of April, MK, citing special services, reported that the nickname of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane, on board which carried a total of 239 people, was Hich. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 were not guilty of the hijacking, a fairly authoritative source from the intelligence services assured the MK correspondent on condition of anonymity.

The Boeing 777-200ER, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines flew jointly with

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The missing Boeing 777 flew for several more hours after the crew “lost” communication with dispatchers.

Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under 5 years of age and 12 crew members (including two pilots). The majority of passengers - 153 - were Chinese citizens (one was a permanent resident of Hong Kong). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a vacation in Bali, where he had been diving. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: the Iranians, Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyed-Mohammadreza, purchased tickets using their passports and boarded the flight .

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, Kuala Lumpur Control handed over flight MH370 to controllers in Ho Chi Minh City, which was confirmed by the airliner's crew. Flight MH370 was last recorded on radar at 01:21:13, but the pilots did not contact air traffic controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. After this, contact with the plane was completely lost. At 01:38, Vietnamese air traffic controllers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur where flight MH370 had gone?

After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers contacted Malaysia Airlines flight control at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, controllers at the Cambodian ATM center noted that the crew did not contact them. Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, emphasized that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 airliner was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, dispatchers and airline representatives tried in vain to establish any communication with the plane and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to begin an official search and rescue operation.

There are seven known messages received from flight MH370 via the Aeronautical Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) following the loss of contact with the airliner, including the last one at 08:19.

So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the search for the missing plane, which will now be more focused on studying the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring results).

At the end of April, tired of the uncertainty and unconvincing methods of searching for the missing airliner with a letter about checking the version of the location of the missing plane, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” (site site) with reference to anonymous sources in the intelligence services. Extra-exclusive information from "MK" was urgently made public in both languages ​​and instantly disseminated by the world media (example and another example), blogs and social networks (on various languages peace).

Investigation Expert aviation accidents from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), the most experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov explained to the MK correspondent that “such an aircraft could easily land on an ordinary dirt road of a less dense surface about 2000 meters long. Although, of course, for this there should be free approaches to the landing strip - that is, there should be no trees or mountains. With a hard landing on a “bad” surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even the wing could break” (the estimated weight of the hijacked Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar airliner landing that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which.

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This information was not published in the world media : " A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by "unknown terrorists" and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to an Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: "Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch "The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan." Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan .

The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in March 2014 shocked the whole world. The most varied versions of what happened were put forward. But until now nothing really is known about the fate of the plane.

Was the flight “normal”?

On March 8, 2014, Boeing operated joint flight MH370 with China Southern Airlines, flying from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China). On board there were 227 passengers from different countries and 12 crew members. The crew commander was experienced 53-year-old pilot Zachary Ahmad Shah, and the co-pilot was 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid. The airliner took off from Kuala Lumpur at 0.41 local time and was scheduled to land at Beijing airport at 6.30.

At 02.40 Malaysia time, the plane disappeared from radar screens. At the same time, the dispatchers did not receive any information about technical problems, course changes or other problems. The last message received from the crew read: "Everything is fine, good night." At that moment, the liner was over the South China Sea, 220 kilometers from the east coast of Malaysia.

26 countries, including Russia, took part in the search and rescue operation. But no traces of the missing airliner were found. At the end of January 2015, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department officially declared everyone on board the plane dead.

On July 29, 2015, on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, near the city of San Andre, beach cleaners found a fragment of the wing of an unidentified aircraft covered with shells. Experts have confirmed that this fragment most likely belongs to the missing airliner. Later, other fragments were discovered, but it was never possible to prove their indisputable belonging to the disappeared Boeing.

Oddities

Meanwhile, the investigation, which was carried out by Malaysia along with seven other countries - the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became inaccessible to radar, it spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After approximately 40 minutes, communications with ground services were lost, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to arrive from the on-board terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that the Boeing changed course over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu and crossed Malaysia for the second time in southwest direction and headed south. The flight is believed to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The black box signals were never recorded.

Was the plane hijacked by the Americans?

During a search of Captain Ahmad Shah's house, a homemade Boeing flight simulator was found. It turned out that for some reason the Shah was training to land the airliner at five airfields in the Indian Ocean region. He also erased all entries from his electronic diary.

Therefore, the main version of the investigation was the hijacking of the airliner by unknown persons who were allegedly in collusion with the pilots. Another argument in favor of the crew’s involvement in the disappearance of the plane was the fact that a few minutes before departure, Ahmad Shah spoke on his mobile phone with a woman who had purchased a SIM card using forged documents.

It was the hijackers who could turn off the devices. But where was the plane hijacked? One of the points where Ahmad Shah “planted” him with the help of a simulator was the US military base “Diego Garcia”, located on an atoll island with an area of ​​about 27 square kilometers, part of the Chagos archipelago.

Why did the American military need to hijack the Boeing? President of the Institute for Scientific Research of the Third Millennium Ilya Belous points out that among the passengers were 20 employees of the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which produces chips, semiconductors and other electronic equipment, including military technologies. Moreover, these employees were not Americans. 12 of them were Malaysians, 8 were Chinese. And they had a number of patents in the military field. Perhaps they wanted to force them to work for the American government under supervision. And the plane with the remaining passengers was simply liquidated.

But if all this is so, then it is very unlikely that we will ever learn about the true fate of the fatal Boeing. After all, the intelligence services know how to hide loose ends.

The day before, a source from the intelligence services told MK on condition of anonymity that, according to available data, the hijacked passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.

According to a representative of the special services, the search for the “black box” of the airliner is most likely a pointless undertaking, although understandable.

In the first ten days of April, MK reported that the nickname of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane with a total of 239 people on board was Hich. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 were not guilty of the hijacking, a fairly authoritative source from the intelligence services assured the MK correspondent on condition of anonymity.

“Rolls-Royce collects data on the performance of the Trent 800 engines, which are installed on the Boeing 777, once every 30 minutes. Five hours of flight at cruising speed (about 900 km per hour) gives a flight range of 4000-4400 km" (The Wall Street Journal via Vedomosti). This means that the Boeing 777 could also land in Afghanistan...

At the end of March 2014, MK was the only publication in the world to report for the first time that “a Malaysian airliner is on a small road southeast of Kandahar in Afghanistan (in the mountains, on the border with Pakistan), with a broken wing. This means that the plane could have made a very hard landing. All passengers on flight MH370 were alive at that time. According to reports, the people taken hostage were divided into seven groups and placed in “huts” (in very difficult conditions).”

According to intelligence, “the purpose of hijacking an entire plane was to capture 20 specialists flying from Malaysia to China.” According to the data reported by MK, it became known that “the captured specialists were transported back in March to one of the Pakistani bunkers (presumably, some kind of production is located there). Among the specialists discussed is one Japanese, although his nationality was different in the official list of passengers on the flight.”

The press attache of the Russian embassy in Kabul, Stepan Anikeev, was unable to clarify the situation: “We did not receive this information,” the Russian diplomat told NSN. “But we have a lot of interesting things going on in Afghanistan.” Maybe there is this liner here, why not. If everyone is alive, that would be great. But there is nothing to comment on yet,” Anikeev said from Kabul.

MAP - where the missing airliner may be located

The Boeing 777-200ER, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER was on a joint flight with China Southern Airlines with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under 5 years of age and 12 crew members (including two pilots). The majority of passengers - 153 - were Chinese citizens (one was a Hong Kong permanent resident). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a vacation in Bali, where he had been diving. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: the Iranians, Puria Nur Mohammad Mehrdad and Delaware Seyed-Mohammadreza, purchased tickets using their passports and got on board .

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble: “It is of great concern that anyone could be targeted international flight, using a stolen passport contained in Interpol databases.”

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, Kuala Lumpur Control handed over flight MH370 to controllers in Ho Chi Minh City, which was confirmed by the airliner's crew. Flight MH370 was last recorded on radar at 01:21:13, but the pilots did not contact air traffic controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. After this, contact with the plane was completely lost. At 01:38, Vietnamese air traffic controllers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur where flight MH370 had gone?

After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers contacted Malaysia Airlines flight control at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, controllers at the Cambodian ATM center noted that the crew did not contact them. Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, emphasized that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 airliner was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, dispatchers and airline representatives tried in vain to establish any communication with the plane and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to begin an official search and rescue operation. There are seven known messages received from flight MH370 via the Aeronautical Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) following the loss of contact with the airliner, including the last one at 08:19.

On May 1, the Malaysian Ministry of Transport published a preliminary report on the circumstances of the disappearance of the Boeing 777 airliner. In it, Malaysian Transport Minister Hisamuddin Hussein confirmed information that one of Malaysia's military radars recorded a turn of the plane in a westerly direction on the morning of March 8... ("Aviation Business Portal")
So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the search for the missing plane, which will now be more focused on studying the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring results).

At the end of April, tired of the uncertainty and one-sided methods of searching for the missing airliner, relatives of the passengers of the missing Boeing turned to the Malaysian authorities with a letter to verify the version of the whereabouts of the missing plane, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, citing anonymous sources in the intelligence services. . Extra-exclusive information from “MK” was urgently published in English and French and was instantly disseminated by the world’s media (an example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages ​​of the world).

MH370: Check Kandahar, say family members

An expert in the field of investigation of aviation accidents from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), the most experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov explained to the MK correspondent that “such an aircraft could easily land on an ordinary dirt road of a less dense surface about 2000 meters long . Although, of course, for this there should be free approaches to the landing strip - that is, there should be no trees or mountains. With a hard landing on a “bad” surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even the wing could break” (the estimated weight of the hijacked Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar landing of an airliner that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which all passengers remained alive and the plane survived.

The Boeing 777 is the world's largest twin-engine passenger jet. The engines installed on it are the largest and most powerful jet engines in the history of aviation. Increased flight range to 14,316 kilometers. Wingspan: 60.90 m, length: 63.70 m.
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This information was not published in the world media: “A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by “unknown terrorists” and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to an Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: “Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is “Hitch.” The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan." Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan.

SEARCH HISTORY for runaway flight MH370 (from Wiki)

Previous case of disappearance without a trace civil aircraft took place on January 30, 1979 during the execution of a cargo Boeing flight 707-323C from Varig. Half an hour after taking off from Tokyo, the plane disappeared over Pacific Ocean. Despite extensive searches, no traces of the plane or signs of its crash could be found. This incident was still considered the only case of the disappearance of a jet airliner without a trace and one of the most mysterious cases in the history of world aviation...

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